On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> This problem is somewhat related to the terminal color problem so I >>> apologize if it's already taken care by these patches. >>> >>> I use rxvt-unicode as my terminal. Since pacman 3.4, when building >>> packages with makechrootpkg, makepkg aborts with the following error: >>> tput: unknown terminal "rxvt-unicode" >>> >>> This happens because I use a clean chroot in which rxvt-unicode isn't >>> installed so the terminal definition file >>> /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode isn't present. As a workaround, I >>> added a 'TERM=xterm' in the wrapper script I use. >>> >>> It would be nice if, instead of aborting on unknown terminals, makepkg >>> would fallback to the dumb terminal. The dumb terminal currently >>> doesn's work as I believe it doesn't support colors. This change along >>> with the color patch would make makpkg more robust when handling >>> different and unusual terminals. >>> >>> Personnally, I will keep my workaround as I like color. ;) >> >> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-June/011263.html >> >> > > I tested Nezmer's patch and it fix this problem. However, the error > message is still printed for each call to tput (maybe it should be > sent to /dev/null) but makepkg doen't abort anymore.
What error is printed? Output is always helpful. You don't see any errors at all with stock makepkg, it just aborts. dmc...@clifden ~ $ makepkg ==> ERROR: An unknown error has occurred. Exiting... -Dan
